Dining With John the Baptist: Poems
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Dining With John the Baptist: Poems

  1. 84 pages
  2. English
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Dining With John the Baptist: Poems

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This book attempts to demonstrate that no subject is inappropriate for poetry if it is artfully presented. The signal events of life are varied and often limitless, from joy and celebration, to hope and love, to loss and death. Verse, therefore, can be a resource and medium for interpreting these experienced events, and, often, for achieving some sense of triumphant resolution.

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CRUCIFIXION

“I will see to it you are never taken and put to death.”
“Get Thee behind me, Satan!”
“Yes, Lord, yes.”
His is a handsome, kingly head.
The crown is spiny, odd.
Laugh, crowd, for he is guilty.
Yell, shout, spit, curse.
What goes before you is evil!
Let him try it on.
For the thorns are sharp
And the blood is free
And the blood runs red
For you and me
Throw down that cross!
It is your vehicle,
Your “Holy Seat.”
The large hands and feet are dirty, not clean.
Strong hands are beautiful in the sunlight.
They will do.
Place the nails at the wrist
And strike, Hammer, strike.
Yes!
Straighten his legs.
The nail on the foot:
Your laughing JOB, Centurion.
Strike again to be sure
That this Jesus is secure.
For the nails are sharp
And the blood is free
And the blood runs red
For you and me
Push up, criminal Jesus,
On the nails in your feet.
Your chest cavity has sagged
And to breathe you must PUSH.
Ha! Your strength is going fast.
So now, breathing your last,
Hear this our Benediction:
We declare you a derelict, blasphemer, sinner.
You are cut off fro...

Table of contents

  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. A NEW PSALM
  3. SCHOPENHAUER MAKES HIS CASE
  4. EASTER POEM
  5. THE FIRST SAMARITAN
  6. DISRESPECTFULLY, FOR CHARLES DARWIN
  7. GIRL ON A BALCONY
  8. DIONYSUS AND ARIADNE
  9. FOR PASTOR, BEFORE THE MASTECTOMY
  10. THE LAST DAYS OF SIGMUND FREUD
  11. MY AGING DINOSAUR
  12. THE BEAUTIFUL NEVER CHANGES
  13. MILITARY CHAPLAIN
  14. SHACKLETON ABANDONS HIS SHIP
  15. GOING THE SAME WAY
  16. AIDS
  17. THE LAST THYLACINE
  18. HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL
  19. STREET MALLARD
  20. NUMBERS
  21. AUTOPSY
  22. SHE PURRS WITH CLAWS
  23. SOME AUSTEN WOMEN
  24. NAZI BOOK BURNING
  25. OTHER THOUGHTS TO THINK
  26. TERESA’S ECSTASY
  27. UNSPOKEN
  28. ICE CREAM HEADACHE
  29. LAZARUS
  30. THE SHORE
  31. CHEYNE-STOKES
  32. THE END OF ADOLESCENCE
  33. THE DEATH OF ELVIS PRESLEY
  34. QUITE SLOW
  35. CARRIER PILOT, MIDWAY
  36. THE IMAGISTS
  37. FAMILY PLOT
  38. COLD MORNINGS
  39. SIRENS
  40. PHYSICALLY, THE BODY OF ABISHAG
  41. SUICIDE FUNERAL
  42. SUPERFLUOUS DAUGHTERS
  43. HOMAGE TO LOUISIANA
  44. THAT TIME
  45. MIDNIGHT IN THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
  46. IRENE TRIPLETT
  47. THE ROAD
  48. VAN GOGH
  49. CAPTAIN BLIGH
  50. PASTORAL COUNSELING
  51. DINING WITH JOHN THE BAPTIST
  52. ON HEARING OF A PREGNANCY
  53. ON A PICTURE FOUND ON AN S. S. GUARD
  54. THE TIME
  55. THE UNIVERSALISTS IN NORTH CAROLINA
  56. DYLAN THOMAS
  57. IMPORTUNITY
  58. NEANDERTHALS
  59. THE ROOM OF BELLS
  60. EX OPERE OPERATO
  61. A SHOPPER’S GUIDE TO PRAYER
  62. IMITATION: ELIZABETHAN SONNET
  63. ST. JULIAN OF NORWICH
  64. I LEARN LIFE
  65. SEXUAL ASSAULT
  66. REFLECTIONS ON MERLEAU-PONTY
  67. ON A KLIMT
  68. SWEETNESS OF THE NIGHT
  69. THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH
  70. FREEZING
  71. ONLY SON
  72. THE RICH YOUNG RULER
  73. PONTIUS PILATE
  74. CRUCIFIXION